Jacqueline Francis, PhD, is an art historian specializing in U.S. art of the twentieth century and contemporary African Diaspora art. Her articles and reviews have been published in Radical History Review, American Art, Third Text, and other scholarly journals. Her book, Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America, was released by the University of Washington Press in 2012. She is a co-editor of Romare Bearden: American Modernist (Yale University Press, 2011). She is Associate Professor in Visual and Critical Studies at CCA, where she serves on the Thesis Faculty. She has also taught at Kenyon College, the University of Michigan, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, University of San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz. She serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association, an international organization serving students and professionals working in the visual arts.